April 15, 2020
Norway’s brightest new light, girl in red, today uploads midnight love, a song about self-realisation & learning. Written from the perspective of the person suffering, this is Marie Ulven’s songwriting & production at its most intimate, opting for honesty and showing her vulnerabilities on her sleeve.
Speaking about the song, Ulven explains “midnight love feels like my best work so far. its my first song with a piano, but the approach of writing it was a bit different than usual too. even though i’m singing from my perspective, as the ‘’victim’’, in real life it was actually me who was ‘’bad guy’’. a close friend was treated the same way i had treated someone else.
like, this dude would text her at night to see if they could meet up, and it kind of gave her false hope that they could be something more, so she always would say yes and be there for him. seeing that so up close gave me some perspective and i realised that my situation was very similar. so this song is pretty much me reflecting on how small i’ve made someone else feel. even though i never meant be a dick, i was. we met up recently after she heard the song and i apologised. i think she forgave me.”
Watch ‘midnight love’
girl in red’s 2020 couldn’t have started better after becoming the first cover artist for Gay Times this year & ranking among the NME 100 2020 PLUS scoring their first Big Read of the year. She also wrote & performed on the soundtrack for film “The Turning”, that boasts Steven Spielberg as its executive producer, with a song titled “kate’s not here.”
This momentum comes off the back of a huge 2019 for girl in red, having released her chapter 1 & chapter 2 EP’s in a special vinyl bundle titled beginnings that has so far been pressed 10,000 times. She went on to play these out on multiple US & European tours totalling 15,000 tickets last year.
The songs released on beginnings were completely made by her, from bedroom to how you see them. That DIY approach has seen her go on to garner support of a wild hoard of tastemaker praise across the globe for her high energy live performances & music online that speaks on a highly personal level to her fans. Expect to hear lots more very soon.
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